As we examine the deadly results of the Holocaust, we are amazed by what ideology and the hatred of the other can cause. Over the years, scholars of the Holocaust and the second world war have discussed the place the anti-Semitic Nazi worldview held, not only in the development of the final solution, but also in the course of the war in general. In the following videos, professor Yehuda Bauer and professor of Jeffrey Herf each present their respective views on this matter. I think World War II was actually motivated to a very significant path by antisemitism. We know this because of some documentation. It was quite clear to Hitler personally, and as a result of that to the circle around him, that the Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power was threatened by Soviet Bolshevism. And in Nazi ideology, Soviet Bolshevism was Jewish. The facts didn't matter there, that the the idea was that Bolshevism is Jewish and all Jews are Bolsheviks. And in actual fact, Hitler believed that there was a danger to the physical existence of the German people if the Russian Bolsheviks, who were Jews, would conquer Germany. And the idea of Bolshevism in Hitler's eyes was to establish a world controlled by Jews. And at night he later joined the German people, now it is speech in January 1939, which actually can be seen in because of filmed. Hitler combine that with the Jews as the capitalist and he says that, if the Jewish International Financiers will again because it is already in World War I involves the world in another world war. Then the result would not be the victory of Bolshevism by these International Jewish financiers. And therefore the victory of jewelry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe, in other words, the idea of Hitler was to defend Germany by attacking the world, which was endangered by Jewish conspiracy. So, if in World War II in Europe alone, they were about 35 million dead. About 5.6, 5.7 million of whom died in what we call the Holocaust Jews, and over 29 million people were non-Jews who died in large part because of antisemitism. Now, if people today still favor anti-Semitic ideologies, they should be told. Last time it wasn't, it turned against Jews, yes. But the victory is not only Jews, but a huge number many, many millions of non-Jews who died because of antisemitism. >> Nazi antisemitism was of course a form of hatred, and a form of disdain and contempt, but it was something else. It was an interpretation of ongoing events, and it was a worldview and this worldview solved or presumed to solve rather, various riddles of world history. So the riddle of 1939 or rather, excuse me, the riddle of of 1941 was the following. After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the prime minister of Britain, Churchill, announced on the BBC that Britain would aid the Soviet Union. And so for Hitler, the fact that Churchill would aid the Soviet Union was mysterious. Why would this famous colonialists, this man who praise the British Empire, who despised communism. Why would Churchill want to aid the Soviet Union? And its hour of need, now, there were perfectly plausible reasons as to why Churchill made that decision because he regarded the Nazi regime as the primary threat to Britain. And that the only way to win the war was to align with the Soviet Union and that would be the common sensical interpretation of his famous speech of June 1941. But for the Nazi's, the fact that the British wanted an alliance with the Soviet Union and that the Soviet Union wanted an alliance with Britain, why would the Communist want to align with the imperialists, that made no sense. So, none of this made any sense to common sense, but it made perfect sense in the context of a paranoid conspiracy theory, that the Jews had established a connection between the Soviet Union and Britain. And Nazi propaganda made this point Hitler, and Goebbels made this point in their speeches and essays that the reason that Britain and the Soviet Union had formed an alliance was because of the power of the Jews. Now, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory as an interpretation of the second world war applied to the United States as well. Why would the United States not adopt a policy of America first, America first, America first, we should not be involved in Europe's problems. It's none of our Affair America first. That's what Charles Lindbergh said, father Coughlin, the anti-Semites in the United States, the quote isolationist. This doesn't concern us, what's going on in Europe, America first. And Hitler asked, why would the United States which has no National interest whatsoever, in what happens on the European continent be interested in intervening in this war. This is a mystery, as to why the United States would involve itself in this war. It's none of their business, but now we have an interpretation as to why the United States is intervening in this war. It's because Franklin Roosevelt is the president of the United States, is because Franklin Roosevelt doesn't believe in America first, because he is a traitor to American national interests. And because Franklin Roosevelt has been captured by the power of the Jewish Lobby. And his Jewish Pals from New York City, the center of Jewish power, and that is why in opposition to the National interest of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt is driving the United States into a war against Nazi Germany. And why Franklin Roosevelt in the United States are forming an alliance with the Soviet Union, so yet again, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of the second world war demonstrates. Why these mysterious events that otherwise are completely inexplicable to anybody with an ounce of common sense? Why would the United States bother itself with a war in Europe? If it wasn't for the power of the Jews in New York, who are sending non-Jewish boys to Europe to lose their limbs and lose their lives so that the Jews can win a war that they will benefit from and become very wealthy as a result of. And that's what the German government told the German people. And they told it to them again and again, and the longer the war went on the more the war came home in the form of the air war against Hamburg and Dresden and many other cities when 600,000 German civilians died under the bombs of the British and American Air Force's. When whole working class districts went up in flames and people in Hamburg jumped into the canals of the city and died in the boiling water and a firestorm. Horrific events, what Joseph Goebbels said, the propaganda minister was that, the Jews have done this to you. It's the Jews who are gaining revenge. You see we were right, we said they would come and kill us all, and now they're doing it.
